Brickstamp, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1967.1321.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1967.1321 AshLI 286 Glos. no.378

A virtually intact brick, in good condition, bearing a circular orbicular stamp, with a large orbiculus (0.045) extending into the central section of the stamp.

Brick: 0.203 0.204 0.038

There are two lines of letters around the edge of the stamp, running in concentric circles, with the additional word COS stamped across the central circular section. Beneath this is the image of a small bucranium (ox-head). There is a ligature in line 2.

 Outer line, 0.013; inner line, 0.012; central line, 0.012 According to the Ashmolean Accession Register, this stamp was found in Rome (cf. CIL XV,1 no.860). AD 141 (consular date) It was given to Gloucester City Museum in 1910 by Welbore St. Clair Baddeley, a well-known local antiquarian (information from David Rice of Gloucester Museum). It was first loaned to the Ashmolean in 1964 (Gloucester Loan no.25), and then transferred permanently on 16th November 1967 (Glos. no.378). It is currently in store. Photograph
ex figlinis Asiniae Quadratillae opus doliare Gai Nunnidi Fortunati Severo et Stloga consulibus

From the brickyards of Asinia Quadratilla. Brick-product of Gaius Nunnidius Fortunatus. In the consulship of Severus and Stloga.

Asinia Quadratilla (PIR2 A 1260; Raepsaet-Charlier 1987: p.128 no.115) is the daughter of Asinius Marcellus (see AN1967.1320), inheriting his brickyards after his death by AD 141 (CIL XV,1 no.860; Steinby 1974-75: p.66, with n.11). The same officinator is named as having previously worked for her father (Setälä 1977: pp.72-74).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1967.1321

Raepsaet-CharlierM-Th. 1987 Prosopographie des femmes de l’ordre sénatorial (Ier-IIe siècles) Leuven Peeters Setälä P. 1977 Private Domini in Roman Brick Stamps of the Empire. A Historical and Prosopographical Study of Landowners in the District of Rome Helsinki Academia Scientiarum Fennica Steinby M. 1974-75 La cronologia delle figlinae doliari urbane Bullettino della commissione archeologica comunale di Roma 84 25-132